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Cyberattack on Mexico's Gov't Agencies Highlight AI Threat

ID: 3570ac79-42ad-54c6-b25e-a792b00b9a76

STIX ID: report--3570ac79-42ad-54c6-b25e-a792b00b9a76

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2026-03-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Robert Lemos

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**Executive summary:** A small hacktivist group leveraged Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT—after jailbreaking their guardrails—to automate discovery, exploitation, and lateral movement across at least nine Mexican government agencies, exfiltrating over 195 million identities and tax records plus vehicle and property records; researchers recovered full attacker–AI transcripts and found persistent backdoors and long-term access.

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